Top immigration enforcement officials in Donald Trump’s administration testified Thursday that an initial characterization of Alex Pretti as a “domestic terrorist” did not come from them or their staff, appearing to contradict White House claims that the accusation originated in the agency whose officers fatally shot him in Minnesota.
The same day Border Patrol officers shot and killed Pretti on January 24, White House deputy chief of policy Stephen Miller called him a “domestic terrorist” and an “assassin” who “tried to murder federal agents.”
